Amid turmoil at JNU Modi meets Shah, others

Amid the raging political row over police action at JNU, top BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah met today.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, besides Shah met Modi at his residence to take stock of the current political situation.
Party sources insisted that the meeting had no "direct correlation" with the JNU row and covered a wide spectrum of issues. They said a host of issues, including the upcoming state assembly elections and the Budget Session of Parliament were discussed.
"The meeting of senior party leaders happens at regular intervals and is routine. The Budget Session is coming and so are assembly elections in five states. There are organisational issues of the party as well," a senior party leader said when asked about the deliberations.

He, however, added that the JNU issue too was likely to have come up for discussion as the government has been attacked by Congress and the Left over its response to the holding of an event at the varsity against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.
BJP has defended the police action against the students allegedly involved in shouting anti-India slogans and accused the opposition parties of speaking in the voice of terror group LeT founder Hafiz Sayeed.

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Sources said Modi also held pre-budget consultations with his key ministers including Jaitley, Singh, Swaraj and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.

Though there was no official statement about what transpired in the meeting, sources said issues related to the Union Budget were on the table.
It will be the second full-fledged budget of the Modi government after it came to power in 2014.